Re: [feature/native-comp] AOT eln files ignored if run from build tree

[Andy Moreton]

On Tue 02 Feb 2021, akrl--- via "Emacs development discussions." wrote:

> Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton@gmail.com> writes:
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> I have built emacs native-comp branch for 64bit Mingw64 with
>> NATIVE_FULL_AOT=1 (out of tree, so build dir != source dir).
>>
>> I notice that if I run the built emacs from the build dir then the
>> prebuilt .eln files are ignored, and async compilation of the .eln file
>> happens again to add them to the user eln-cache dir.
>>
>> The prebuilt .eln files are not found in the user eln-cache (expected)
>> or the installed emacs directory (also expected), but it looks like it
>> does not also check the build dir (relative to the running emacs rather
>> than relative to the install prefix).
>>
>> Running from the build dir without installing is common for developers
>> building from source, so it would be useful to keep this working with
>> native AOT builds.
>>
>>     AndyM
>
> Please open a bug so we can track this issue in the bug tracker.

Done, see bug 46256.

    AndyM